The Yankees’ Victory Parade Had Some Special Confetti

Apparently, it isn’t just the 27th World Series title that gets Yankees fans in a tizzy. It’s the parade, too.⇥Auditor Damian Salo attended the Manhattan parade. He tells The New York Post he found all sorts of personal financial documents in the mountains of shredded paper tossed from skyscrapers as the players rode up Broadway.⇥⇥They included pay stubs, banking data, law firm memos and even some court files.⇥

⇥⇥The founder of one financial firm, Alan Sarroff, says his company reprimanded one “overzealous” employee for throwing records out the window that should have been shredded.⇥

Putting aside the positively terrifying idea that there are apparently auditors going through the detritus of ticker-tape parades, the disturbing hook is clearly that potentially sensitive financial documents just got tossed out the window because New York professionals had no blank paper to pitch as confetti.

For this, I blame the Yankees. And why not: With all the money and paper the pinstriped juggernaut has dished out less than judiciously in previous years, couldn’t they have just made a thousand copies of Carl Pavano’s contract to distribute? That would have been far more fun, and it could have maybe even stanched the torrent of “The Yankees are bad for baseball” criticism that has been levied this week.

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